Training Opportunities
2026 Washington State Co-Response Conference
Where: Seattle, WA
When: May 7, 2026
Registration: https://bhcore.org/event/croa-conference-2026/
About: Since 2022, BHCore and the Co-Responder Outreach Alliance (CROA) have partnered to hold an annual conference that brings together Washington State’s family of first responders. Each year, we share the latest practices supporting frontline responder well-being, highlight real-world clinical interventions, and profile high-impact partnerships.
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming conference at the Graduate Hotel in Seattle’s University District on Thursday, May 7, where we will host 140 first responders for this inspiring event.
2026 Northwest Regional Crisis Intervention Team Conference
Where: Airway Heights, WA
When: May 15-16 2026
Registration: https://www.eventsquid.com/contestant-reg.cfm?event_id=30130
About: This two-day conference welcomes first responders, behavioral health, resources, and consumers from all over Oregon, Idaho, and Washington states. This interactive and collaborative event offers learning skills, sharing ideas, attending presentations, and networking with an emphasis on crisis intervention.
Funding Opportunities
BJA GRANT: Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training
Website: here
The Collaborative Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT) Program supports improved law enforcement engagement with people in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities, and/or traumatic brain injuries to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community.
The program supports the design and use of best practice training approaches and tools, such as the implementation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA’s) national Crisis Response and Intervention Training curriculum, to increase understanding of behavioral health conditions and disabilities, navigate community resources, and improve de-escalation skills within the applicant organization and among patrol and facility-based staff.
Eligible Applicants:
State governments
City or township governments
Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education (with on-campus police departments, public or state-controlled hospitals with on-campus police departments)
County governments
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities (with public safety/peace officers or campus police)
Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
Other: Units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
SAMHSA GAINS Center
SAMHSA GAINS Center Learning Collaborative for Creating and Enhancing Community-Level Partnerships Among First Responders and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs): SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Criminal Justice Learning Collaboratives (prainc.com) (a year-long learning/implementation cohort). Funds available for “establishing and strengthening partnerships among law enforcement and other first responder entities and CCBHCs at the local level, with a focus on providing first law enforcement-friendly options for addressing the acute needs of people who are in mental health crises.”
BJA Justice and Mental health collaboration Program
The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (JMHCP) supports innovative cross-system collaboration to improve public safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Through the FY 2024 JMHCP funding opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance provides grant funding to help organizations prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target people who qualify.
JMHCP awards will have a focus on pretrial, prosecution, courts, probation/parole, and addressing the needs directly related to the criminal activity of adults with mental health conditions, living in homelessness or marginalized communities with minimal access to treatment, needing wrap around services, in the criminal justice system and leaving incarceration.
If you are interested in applying here are some additional resources.
Job Openings
If you have new job opportunities to share with our members, please email Vanessa Martin, Managing Director, at director@croawa.org.
The City of Spokane is hiring a Behavioral Health Paramedic to provide basic and advanced emergency medical treatment and assistance from the Behavioral Response Unit (BRU) to people experiencing mental health and substance use crises.
For more information on the open position, visit the following site: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/spokanecity/jobs/5233146-0/behavioral-health-paramedic
Other Opportunities
If you have new opportunities to share with our members, please email Vanessa Martin, Managing Director, at director@croawa.org.
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